PEORIA — A 53-year-old man was forced to get on his knees and robbed of his cash at gunpoint Thursday in an East Bluff alley.

The victim told police he was walking about 8:25 p.m. in the even-side alley of the 2600 block of North Knoxville Avenue back to his house from a nearby gas station when two teenage males came out from behind a garage, according to a report on the incident.

They told him to get on his knees, take off his jacket and put his hands on his head. One jammed a metal object, possibly the barrel of a gun, into the victim’s back. The suspects went through the victim’s pockets, took an undisclosed amount of money and fled on foot.